20 pin power into a 24 pin?

[brett1]

Guy I know bought a mobo with a 24 pin power connector and a the 4 pin 12V on the side.

His 300W PSU has a 20 pin connector along with one 4 pin connector.

Is a 24 pin connector required? It's a some cheapo nforce mobo http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/main...php?name=NF61V%20Micro%20AM2(Ver.1.1)#

guy is using the onboard audio and video and nothing it plugged into it at all other than one 7200rpm hdd. No OCing planned at all

thanks

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Works fine. I ran a highly overclocked A64 for 2+ years on a 20pin psu. I am now using the same psu to power an E6400 at 3.2ghz

 

[Zepper]

Today's mobos depend more on the +12V side - the connector arrangement is fine but if the power distribution in the 300W PSU is heavily weighted to the +5V side, it might not be adequate. But I've recently been running my system on my ancient Sparkle 250W backup PSU with only 13A on the +12. OTOH, since it is a modestly configured system it may be just fine. Try it - you'll learn soon enough if the +12 is inadequate.

..bh.